My Mastodon experience is far more pleasant than that of Lemmy.
My sense is Mastodon is far less left leaning (but still left of center) but it may just be a product of who I’m following and the tags I’m following.
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TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
If the userbase of mastodon is even remotely similar to that of lemmy, I sure as fuck am glad I joined Bluesky instead
capital@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
My sense is Mastodon is far less left leaning (but still left of center)
Begging the question of what you think constitutes the political “center”, given how fash everything has become.
capital@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’m too tired to hash that out with you.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Might be cause you’re bouncing between so many social media services
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The actual center, which never moves even as extremists come and go, would be a little to the right of Elizabeth Warren, though not by much.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The actual center, which never moves
???
Public opinion never changes?
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I would love to have an unbiased Lemmy. But this is filled with mostly extreme far left people I talked to. I also get down voted any time I mention most people don’t use Imperial/Fahrenheit, except 5% of the world. Lemmy feels kind of hostile for open discussion. Image
Kyatto@leminal.space 4 weeks ago
Have you considered that US standard unit users know that and it’s just annoying when someone points it out unnecessarily for the hundredth time?
capital@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah, I think I saw that post.
Lots of “it’s OK when we do it” sentiment.
I’ve noticed the majority (or at least the vocal ones) don’t really stand on principles such as free speech. And I don’t mean as in a “free speech” Lemmy instance. I mean in terms of inalienable rights.
To many here, things like that are only for the “good” people, as determined by them.
todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
You’re always welcome to go back to Reddit if you don’t like it here.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You’re not, though. Reddit is Bots Only
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Everyone something something bot
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Reddit’s core business model from day one was to fake engagement. This isn’t calling your nan’s IMs a cyber attack. We’re talking about a community that’s been outted repeatedly for hosting artificial content.
TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
I did. The userbase in most of the subs there is warmer, not hostile, and much, MUCH less gatekeepy.
If lemmy ever wants to grow and actually succeed, I don’t see it happening with people acting like they are acting now.
ComradeMiao@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’ve had the exact opposite experience except people are anti blsky and reddit. That isn’t hostile.
TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
I’ve had terrible experience with mainly tankies, which infest this site to its core. That was what mainly made it so hostile. Aversion to bluesky and reddit made it very gatekeepy
Nommer@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I’ve had less toxic experiences on reddit. Here I’ve had people use my post history to insult me and I even had some jackass respond to me 3 months later after some change Firefox did to “prove” he was right. Even though he was still wrong. Not to mention the tankies and other troll instances. I deleted my account on reddit years ago due to the toxicity there and I still find it less toxic now than Lemmy whenever I lurk there. Lemmy is dying because of the toxicity here. My subscribed feed used to have at least an hour or two of content to look at but it’s slowly been less and less, and mostly just automated bot posts now. I spend less than 10 minutes a day here now because there’s just nothing here. And I know she’s someone is going to be a dick when replying to this and I’ll just have to block 2 or 3 people again.
ProtecyaTec@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
lol you called dude a “Fucking retard” for posting a link on a 3 month old comment thread that you could have just ignored.
I generally look at someone’s comment history before replying to them to see if it’s even worth a reply. The internet has been and always will be (without heavy authoritarian moderation) full of trolls, Bad Faith Actors, and idiots. Block everyone, cry victim, whatever makes you feel better. Maybe if you keep running into assholes and trolls you should reflect on your comment history and how you interact with people online. The kind of comments you feel the need to comment back to (because you don’t need to comment on anything, like ever).
Nommer@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
You’re the problem and exactly the type of person to block so thanks for proving my point
frezik@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
When Reddit happens to pop up on Google search results for something, I sometimes check my old account inbox. There have been two separate accounts replying to a years old anti-pseudoscience post I’ve mine saying that if I don’t believe the moon is plasma, then I won’t be right with Jesus.
At least on Lemmy, blocking two instances cuts out most of the tankie crap.